Summer might be ending, but things between Arima and Yukino are just heating up! While Arima's prolonged summer absence gives Yukino some time to think about their relationship, she's still left in doubt. Does she really love him? Meanwhile, Arima's thinking about taking the relationship to the next level. But will Yukino feel the same way?

Then it's time for the Culture Fest! It sounds rather boring to Yukino until she discovers it's a competition with class notes up for grabs. Now Yukino is determined to win, but can she stand up against Class F's secret weapon? And there's a new mystery man in school with some diabolical plans in store for Tsubaki! Who is he and what does he want with Tsubaki?

Contains Episodes 17-21.

DVD Features: Translation Notes, Production Notes, Character Bios, Voice Actor Interviews, English and Spanish Subtitles, Removable "Soft" Subtitles for On-Screen Text, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo for English and Japanese Dialogue, Scene Access, and more!


Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English and Spanish subtitles, Soft Subtitles for on screen text.

His and Her Circumstances took us by surprise when it first came out, and since then it has never failed to amaze us -- Even now as this series starts to come to a close.

The way how the events take place provides just the right amount of… well, everything you could want in story like this. Episode 17 has Arima returning from his extra long summer get-away. During this time, Yukino learns just how much she values his presences and about their relationship. When he returns, they become even closer than they ever have been… so close, that, “the question” is asked. But is it too early to be asking this? In my opinion, yes, but since I have absolutely no part in its production that means nothing.

I have to admit, the way Arima got himself so close her is rather slick. (I’m gonna have to follow his lead one day.) Especially when he popped the question, once everything is said and done… I was like “Whoa.”

Episode 19 takes the animation in a different way, instead of our typical style of animation that we’ve come to love, everything looks all… sketched. Paper cut out style. And the things that go on here, makes me wonder if this episode had a point to start off with. I’m not saying it’s bad, in fact it was quite funny… But the words “What the hell?” came out of my mouth more times than anything during those 21 minutes.

Finally the disk raps up with a new comer to the school, and he’s got some plans that has “revenge” written all over them, for Sakura. To top things off, he seems to be a lot like Yukino, so much that they become friends… so much that Arima wonders if she’s forgotten about him. As with all the previous episodes, this great and extraordinary story is followed by one of the greatest directing techniques, ever seen in an anime. With one more disk to be released, I can’t wait to see how everything comes to an end.

The video for this disk is okay, this series continues to show its age however. The video is not 100% crisp and clear, and there’s faint graininess that can be seen all over. Furthermore, there are some points were some aliasing popped up, but it doesn’t last long. Plus there’s a bit of artefacting during the first few episodes. Other than that, there is nothing else wrong, which is good, we can’t have a great series like this spoiled by even more imperfections in the video.

I enjoyed the audio quite a bit, just a about zero problems here. Everything plays nice and clear, for both English and Japanese audio in its 2.0 mix. I didn’t really listen to the English dub this time around, but from the previous disks, I would imagine that it still sounds great with the voice actors doing a great job.

As with the pervious releases, the menus are just as great as the feature is. Such as the greatness of the soft subs that are placed throughout the disk translating some of the on screen texts, the option to remove on screen text (And there’s a lot of that.) is also thrown in. Continuing on, we get access to the other parts of the disk, like the episode selection, which leads to the chapter stops and whatnot. The animation in the back ground also looks great and adds to the proof that Right Stuf had a lot of work put into this. Plus the opening and endings have alternative angles, so you can have the option of viewing it with the Japanese logos or the English ones.

Nice to see that finally some one out there is utilizing the full power of DVD technology.

Moving onto the extras, which seem to be moving in the same way as the last volumes. We have the character bios for the rest of the characters on this. Translator notes and interviews. It would be nice if there were more at this point in the series, but seeing the amount of work that was put into the menus and titles, this will do.

I’m really enjoying this series right now, yet I’m still having a hard time accepting the fact that it’s all over in the next release. As with the last volumes, this disk… this series is a must for all anime fans in existence. If you haven’t; gotten on it already, now is a good time to do so.